ETF comparison
CGDV vs DGRO
Both Dividend.
Capital Group Dividend Value ETF · iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF
Holdings overlap
28 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of CGDV and DGRO would leave roughly 29.2% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
DGRO is 25 bps cheaper than CGDV. On a $100,000 position that's about $250/yr more in fees for CGDV.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with CGDV vs DGRO.
Top shared holdings
28 shared in total| # | Holding | In CGDV | In DGRO | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Corp | 7.64% | 3.24% | 3.24% |
| 2 | Broadcom Inc | 4.67% | 2.55% | 2.55% |
| 3 | Apple Inc | 2.21% | 2.86% | 2.21% |
| 4 | JPMorgan Chase & Co | 2.19% | 3.16% | 2.19% |
| 5 | AbbVie Inc | 1.54% | 2.96% | 1.54% |
| 6 | Philip Morris International Inc | 1.44% | 2.13% | 1.44% |
| 7 | Cisco Systems Inc | 2.60% | 1.33% | 1.33% |
| 8 | ExxonMobil Holdings Corp | 1.31% | 2.87% | 1.31% |
| 9 | Eli Lilly & Co | 1.91% | 1.19% | 1.19% |
| 10 | RTX Corp | 3.16% | 1.01% | 1.01% |
| 11 | Amgen Inc | 0.98% | 1.30% | 0.98% |
| 12 | Abbott Laboratories | 0.94% | 1.10% | 0.94% |
Only in CGDV
24 total- NVIDIA Corp 6.31%
- Meta Platforms Inc 4.27%
- Alphabet Inc 3.55%
- Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd 3.49%
- General Electric Co 3.05%
- Comcast Corp 2.61%
- Starbucks Corp 2.44%
- British American Tobacco PLC 2.26%
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd 2.08%
- Amazon.com Inc 2.00%
Only in DGRO
362 total- JOHNSON & JOHNSON 3.07%
- PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY (THE) 2.17%
- HOME DEPOT INC (THE) 2.14%
- COCA-COLA COMPANY (THE) 1.96%
- MERCK & COMPANY INC 1.91%
- BANK OF AMERICA CORP 1.83%
- PEPSICO INC 1.66%
- GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC (THE) 1.11%
- VISA INC 1.10%
- INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP 1.08%
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- DGRO vs FVD · First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund 29.0%
- DGRO vs AVLV · Avantis US Large Cap Value ETF 28.1%
- DGRO vs SDY · State Street SPDR S&P Dividend ETF 28.1%
- DGRO vs CGUS · Capital Group Core Equity ETF 27.4%
- DGRO vs ACWV · iShares MSCI Global Min Vol Factor ETF 26.0%
- DGRO vs SPMO · Invesco S&P 500 Momentum ETF 25.4%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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